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A Bolivian indigenous woman, supporter of Bolivian ousted president Evo Morales, holds a Wiphala flag--representing native peoples--during a protest against the interim government in La Paz on November 15, 2019. (Photo: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)
Massive Anti-Coup Protests Explode Across Bolivia 'Against the Many Violations to Democracy'
"Do you think we are ignorant?"
Nov 14, 2019
Chanting "resign now" to Bolivia's interim, self-declared president Jeanine Anez, protesters across the Latin American country on Friday made their displeasure with the overthrow of the government by right-wing Christian extremists last Sunday known.
Thousands of demonstrators marched through the cities of La Paz and El Alto. Friday's protests follow days of unrest as the Bolivian people rejected Sunday's coup, which forced democratically-elected President Evo Morales to resign and flee the country.
An Indigenous woman, in comment to RT Thursday, asked if the coup leaders thought the people of Bolivia were ignorant of what was happening in the country.
\u201c"\u00bfCreen que somos ignorantes?": El contundente discurso de una mujer ind\u00edgena a lo que sucede en Bolivia https://t.co/a6TmEMPk7b\u201d— RT en Espa\u00f1ol (@RT en Espa\u00f1ol) 1573843436
Friday's demonstrations were a show of force by the Bolivian people against the coup government. Video and photographs from the country showed long stretching lines of people waving the Indigenous wiphala flag and calling for Anez to step down.
\u201cProtests against the coup d\u2019etat in #Bolivia are getting bigger and bigger. People from all over Bolivia are marching in support of #EvoMorales #BoliviaResiste\n\u201d— nonouzi (@nonouzi) 1573837651
\u201c#Bolivia: Massive protests against the coup continue, \u201cResign the self-proclaimed interim president\u201d\n#EvoMorales #BoliviaResiste #EvoEsElPresidente \n\u201d— nonouzi (@nonouzi) 1573841619
None— De la Hoya (@De la Hoya) 1573845499
None— (\u0e07\ufe21'-'\ufe20)\u0e07 Follow The Light (@(\u0e07\ufe21'-'\ufe20)\u0e07 Follow The Light) 1573842096
"Evo Morales has been a good man," a supporter identified as Sonia toldDemocracy Now! Thursday. "He worked for the people. He didn't rob from us like these thieves who want to shake up the state and kill us like dogs, as if we're not humans."
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Chanting "resign now" to Bolivia's interim, self-declared president Jeanine Anez, protesters across the Latin American country on Friday made their displeasure with the overthrow of the government by right-wing Christian extremists last Sunday known.
Thousands of demonstrators marched through the cities of La Paz and El Alto. Friday's protests follow days of unrest as the Bolivian people rejected Sunday's coup, which forced democratically-elected President Evo Morales to resign and flee the country.
An Indigenous woman, in comment to RT Thursday, asked if the coup leaders thought the people of Bolivia were ignorant of what was happening in the country.
\u201c"\u00bfCreen que somos ignorantes?": El contundente discurso de una mujer ind\u00edgena a lo que sucede en Bolivia https://t.co/a6TmEMPk7b\u201d— RT en Espa\u00f1ol (@RT en Espa\u00f1ol) 1573843436
Friday's demonstrations were a show of force by the Bolivian people against the coup government. Video and photographs from the country showed long stretching lines of people waving the Indigenous wiphala flag and calling for Anez to step down.
\u201cProtests against the coup d\u2019etat in #Bolivia are getting bigger and bigger. People from all over Bolivia are marching in support of #EvoMorales #BoliviaResiste\n\u201d— nonouzi (@nonouzi) 1573837651
\u201c#Bolivia: Massive protests against the coup continue, \u201cResign the self-proclaimed interim president\u201d\n#EvoMorales #BoliviaResiste #EvoEsElPresidente \n\u201d— nonouzi (@nonouzi) 1573841619
None— De la Hoya (@De la Hoya) 1573845499
None— (\u0e07\ufe21'-'\ufe20)\u0e07 Follow The Light (@(\u0e07\ufe21'-'\ufe20)\u0e07 Follow The Light) 1573842096
"Evo Morales has been a good man," a supporter identified as Sonia toldDemocracy Now! Thursday. "He worked for the people. He didn't rob from us like these thieves who want to shake up the state and kill us like dogs, as if we're not humans."
Chanting "resign now" to Bolivia's interim, self-declared president Jeanine Anez, protesters across the Latin American country on Friday made their displeasure with the overthrow of the government by right-wing Christian extremists last Sunday known.
Thousands of demonstrators marched through the cities of La Paz and El Alto. Friday's protests follow days of unrest as the Bolivian people rejected Sunday's coup, which forced democratically-elected President Evo Morales to resign and flee the country.
An Indigenous woman, in comment to RT Thursday, asked if the coup leaders thought the people of Bolivia were ignorant of what was happening in the country.
\u201c"\u00bfCreen que somos ignorantes?": El contundente discurso de una mujer ind\u00edgena a lo que sucede en Bolivia https://t.co/a6TmEMPk7b\u201d— RT en Espa\u00f1ol (@RT en Espa\u00f1ol) 1573843436
Friday's demonstrations were a show of force by the Bolivian people against the coup government. Video and photographs from the country showed long stretching lines of people waving the Indigenous wiphala flag and calling for Anez to step down.
\u201cProtests against the coup d\u2019etat in #Bolivia are getting bigger and bigger. People from all over Bolivia are marching in support of #EvoMorales #BoliviaResiste\n\u201d— nonouzi (@nonouzi) 1573837651
\u201c#Bolivia: Massive protests against the coup continue, \u201cResign the self-proclaimed interim president\u201d\n#EvoMorales #BoliviaResiste #EvoEsElPresidente \n\u201d— nonouzi (@nonouzi) 1573841619
None— De la Hoya (@De la Hoya) 1573845499
None— (\u0e07\ufe21'-'\ufe20)\u0e07 Follow The Light (@(\u0e07\ufe21'-'\ufe20)\u0e07 Follow The Light) 1573842096
"Evo Morales has been a good man," a supporter identified as Sonia toldDemocracy Now! Thursday. "He worked for the people. He didn't rob from us like these thieves who want to shake up the state and kill us like dogs, as if we're not humans."
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